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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Alan Watts

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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